The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-06-23

Items Taken From the Latest Tele-
graphic Reports on Subjects
of Interest.
King Milan, of Servia, is about to sue
for divorce.
The Sunday closing agitation has
struck st. Louis, Mo.
Wool sales in London on Friday
amounted to 10000 bales.
E1-President Hopkins, of Williams Col
lege, Mass, died on the 18th inst.
An earthquake shock was felt on Mon
day in Smyrna and the island of Scio.
Another shock of earthquake was felt
at Charleston, S. c., last Sunday at 1907
a. m.
Bill Cody has been taking the Princess
of Wales out driving on the Deadwood
coach.
Six cases of smallpox among the whites
we're reported in San Francisco last
Friday.
Over 400 Chinese laundrymen struck
for higher wages in New York last
Saturday.
The British bark, Alton was wrecked
and totally lost at Lisieniski island in
the South sea.
The new silver vault of the treasury
will have a storage capacity of 100,0O0,O00
standard silver dollars.
The custom house officers Of San Fran
CISCO captured an opium smuggler NAM
ed Geo. Conner, last week.
The jurors for the trial of Jacob Sharp,
the N. Y. Doodle alderman, have been
obtained and the trial is now in progress.
Editor O'Brien reached Dublin last
Sunday evening, and was received with
the greatest ovation witnessed in many
years.
The Southern Pacific is looking for a
line for road below the Mexican line to
connect with the Southern Pacific at
Yuma.
The balloon sent out by the New York
World last week with the idea of reach
ing Massachusetts, landed in a swamp in
Illinois.
A cyclone at Grand Forks, Dakota, last
week destroyed over twenty-five houses.
Four people were killed and the loss is
$50O,O0O.
The Union Pacific has severed it's con-
nection with the Central Pacific and will
run steamers between San Francisco and
Portland.
During a squan on Lake Erie last Mon
day the steam barge Fl. Walters capsized
and eight or twelve persons were
drowned.
The presentation of the American tes-
timonial to MI Gladstone in London has
been postponed until after the jubilee
festivities.
A cowboy named Mccarthy was shot
and killed while lying drunk on the floor
of saloon in Indianapolis, Colorado, last
Thursday.
John A. Beall, aged 12, is in prison at
Eaton, Ohio, charged with the murder of
his mother. Fears of lynching are en-
tertained.
Ferron, the new French war minister,
will submit project for the creation of
four new cavalry and eighteen infantry
regiments.
The Crimes bill passed the committee
stage last Friday. The Gladstonians and
Parnellites did not vote, leaving the
house in body.
An aerolite fell early in the week near
Evansville, Indiana, which weighed two
tons, and buried itself over twenty-five
feet in the earth.
Last Saturday, in New York, the su-
preme court sustained the sentence OF
John O'Neil, one of the Doodle aldermen
who is now in Sing Sing.
A boat containing $50 pilgrims was
capsized by hurricane while crossing
the Danube river at Paks, and only few
of the party were saved.
/ TThe Countess Compass has decamped
from Paris with the Viscount Delatou1
Garboeuf. The fortune of the lady
amounts to about $7,5OO,O00.
A mob attacked the Office Of the Con-
stitution, a Conservative newspaper OF
Cork, Ireland, last Monday, and smashed
the windows of the building.
A collision of two trains occurred al
Potsdam, Germany, on Sunday, in which
one car burned, two women and one man
was killed and several injured.